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The Bounds of Freedom: Kant's Causal Theory of Action (Hardcover)
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The Bounds of Freedom: Kant's Causal Theory of Action (Hardcover)
Series: Kantstudien-Erganzungshefte
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This monograph is a new interpretation of Kant's atemporal
conception of the causality of the freedom of the will. The
interpretation is based on an analysis of Kant's primary conception
of an action, viz., as a causal consequence of the will. The
analysis in turn is based on H. P. Grice's causal theory of
perception and on P. F. Strawson's modification of the theory. The
monograph rejects the customary assumption that Kant's maxim of an
action is a causal determination of the action. It assumes instead
that the maxim is definitive of the action, and since its main
thesis is that an action for Kant is to be primarily understood as
an effect of the will, it concludes that the maxim of an action can
only be its logical determination. Kant's atemporal conception of
the causality of free will is confronted not only by contemporary
philosophical conceptions of causality, but by Kant's own
complementary theory of causality, in the Second Analogy of
Experience. According to this latter conception, causality is a
natural relation among physical and psychological objects, and is
therefore a temporal relation among them. Faced with this conflict,
Kant scholars like Allen W. Wood either reject Kant's atemporal
conception of causality or like Henry E. Allison accept it, but
only in an anodyne form. Both camps, however, make the
aforementioned assumption that Kant's maxim of an action is a
causal determination of the action. The monograph, rejecting the
assumption, belongs to neither camp.
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